Dixie "White House"

Woodrow Wilson spent two weeks over Christmas 1913 in a house that was already old. John Bache of New Orleans built it in 1854, and General William Harney, a Mexican War cavalryman, later owned it and hosted Ulysses Grant in 1880. In 1961 new buyers considered tearing it down, and the Pass Christian Garden Club's alarm led to the founding of the Pass Christian Historical Society; a summer resident bought it in 1966. Camille destroyed it in 1969. A couple who bought the lot in 2005 spent more than a decade rebuilding an exact replica.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 17 mi
  A barrier island twelve miles off the Mississippi coast with a brick fort burned half-built in 1861, a Union prison camp, and the garrison post of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 20 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 20 mi
  A cast-iron tower lit in 1848 on the Biloxi beachfront, kept by women for most of its first century and still in service after Camille and Katrina.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 22 mi
  Frank Gehry's pavilions on the Biloxi waterfront, built around the pottery of George Ohr, the self-styled Mad Potter, and the rebuilt Pleasant Reed House.

More markers nearby

• Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church — 1.3 mi
• J.W. Randolph School — 1.6 mi
• Boggsdale — 3.4 mi
• Early Long Beach — 5.8 mi